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Highest Rated Jazz Albums of the 1960s
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1960s
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Source
Rolling Stone
Genre
Jazz
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Avant-Garde Jazz
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Country
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Pop
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Pop Soul
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Psychedelia
Psychedelic Pop
Psychedelic Rock
R&B
Rock
Singer-Songwriter
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Southern Soul
Vocal Jazz
1960s
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
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Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
August 0, 1964
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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2
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Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
October 0, 1966
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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3
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Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity
May 0, 1965
Free Jazz
Score
100
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4
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Cecil Taylor - The World of Cecil Taylor
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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5
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Archie Shepp - Four for Trane
November 0, 1964
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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6
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Eric Dolphy - Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 1
Post-Bop
,
Avant-Garde Jazz
,
Hard Bop
Score
100
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7
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Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures
October 0, 1966
Free Jazz
Score
100
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8
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Charles Mingus - Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
January 0, 1961
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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9
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Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
April 30, 1965
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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10
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Anthony Braxton - 3 Compositions of New Jazz
September 0, 1968
Avant-Garde Jazz
,
Modern Creative
Score
100
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11
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Cannonball Adderley - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
Soul Jazz
,
Hard Bop
Score
100
Source →
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Music
12
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Max Roach - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
January 12, 1960
Avant-Garde Jazz
,
Vocal Jazz
Score
100
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13
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Ornette Coleman - Change of the Century
June 3, 1960
Avant-Garde Jazz
Score
100
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14
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Bill Evans Trio - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
June 25, 1961
Jazz
,
Cool Jazz
Score
100
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15
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Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
July 0, 1963
Avant-Garde Jazz
,
Third Stream
Score
100
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16
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The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet - Free Jazz
September 0, 1961
Free Jazz
Score
100
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17
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Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
July 30, 1969
Jazz Fusion
,
Modal Jazz
Score
100
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18
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Booker Little - Out Front
October 12, 1961
Jazz
Score
100
Source →
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19
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Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia
May 0, 1969
Post-Bop
,
Jazz
Score
100
Source →
Amazon
20
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Steve Lacy - The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
Jazz
Score
100
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21
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Jackie McLean - Consequence
December 3, 1965
Jazz
Score
100
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22
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Max Roach - Percussion Bitter Sweet
August 0, 1961
Hard Bop
,
Post-Bop
,
Afro-Cuban Jazz
,
Vocal Jazz
Score
100
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23
.
Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Volume Two
October 1, 1962
R&B
,
Vocal Jazz
,
Country Soul
Score
100
Source →
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24
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John Coltrane - Ascension (Edition I)
February 0, 1966
Free Jazz
,
Spiritual Jazz
Score
100
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25
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Frank Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim - Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim
March 0, 1967
Bossa Nova
,
Standards
,
Vocal Jazz
Score
100
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